Download e-book for kindle: The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror by Dylan Trigg

Download e-book for kindle: The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror by Dylan Trigg

By Dylan Trigg

ISBN-10: 1782790772

ISBN-13: 9781782790778

What's the human physique? either the main favourite and strange of items, the physique is the centre of expertise but additionally the location of a prehistory anterior to any event. Alien and uncanny, this different aspect of the physique has all too usually been missed by means of phenomenology. In confronting this oversight, Dylan Trigg's the item redefines phenomenology as a species of realism, which he phrases unhuman phenomenology. faraway from being the motor vehicle of a human voice, this unhuman phenomenology offers expression to the alien materiality on the restrict of expertise. by way of fusing the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Levinas with the horrors of John wood worker, David Cronenberg, and H.P. Lovecraft, Trigg explores the ways that an unhuman phenomenology positions the physique out of time. instantly a problem to conventional notions of phenomenology, the object is additionally a well timed rejoinder to modern philosophies of realism. the result's not anything below a rebirth of phenomenology as redefined throughout the lens of horror.

Dylan Trigg's the object is a cosmopolitan melding of philosophy, literary feedback, and movie feedback that underscores his significant thesis that 'the horror of the cosmos is largely the horror of the body.' Its discussions of the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, the flicks of John wood worker and David Cronenberg, and different texts and movies let us examine those works from a desirable new viewpoint whereas laying off mild on humanity's fragility in a boundless cosmos. ~ S. T. Joshi

Dylan Trigg's the article: A Phenomenology of Horror takes up the important problem of latest philosophy - grappling with the area as detached to human constructs and ideas. Trigg's research indicates to us that phenomenology - too usually considered as a philosophy of the human par excellence - is uncannily fitted to considering the world-without-us. Husserl writing horror fiction is the spirit of this research. ~ Eugene Thacker, writer of within the airborne dirt and dust Of This Planet

The vintage perception of human transcendental cognizance assumes its self-supporting existential prestige in the horizon of life-world, nature and earth. but this assumed absoluteness doesn't entail the character of its powers, neither their constitutive strength. This latter demand an existential resource attaining past the generative life-world community.

Introduction
1 technology and man
2 technological know-how and phenomenology
3 The plan of this work
4 'Geographical phenomenology'
5 The disciplinary context

PART I GEOGRAPHY and conventional METAPHYSICS
Geographical discourse and its imperative themes
6 simple suggestions of technology and the strategy applicable to ontology
7 Objectivism and subjectivism
8 Positivism and naturalism
8a The a-historical nature of positivism
8b The Enlightenment and positivism
8c Naturalism and idealism
9 Kantian ontology of fabric nature
10 Conceptions of actual area and geography
10a The emergence of geography as an summary, theoretical science
10b Social physics
11 actual area, cognitive behaviouralism and the flip to subjectivity
12 The mode of being attribute of geographical objects

PART II GEOGRAPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGY
The interpretation of phenomenology in geography
13 The phenomenological foundation of geography
14 Geographical phenomenology
14a Phenomenology and useful research
15 techniques to geographical phenomenology
15a the mandatory contrast among humanism and geography
15b Existentialism
16 The view of science
16a Phenomenology as criticism
16b Phenomenology as anti-science
16c The foundational position of phenomenology
16d Phenomena of lived experience
17 The flip to the lifeworld, and the anomaly of floor and object
18 The phenomenological method
18a Intentionality

Geographical phenomenology: a critique of its foundations
19 The metaphysics of geographical phenomenology
20 Humanism and the confusion of the 'objective' and the 'subjective'
20a Subjectivity and intentionality
20b Individualism
20c The 'things themselves', 'consciousness' and 'the challenge of the target world'
2od Idealism
21 Geographical phenomenology: its inner critique
21a Phenomenology and standards of validity
22 The flip to Schiitz's constitutive phenomenology and justifying a go back to Husserl

PART III PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE query OF HUMAN SCIENCE
Husserlian phenomenology: the foundational project
23 what's phenomenology?
23a Phenomenology: its origins and foundations
23b The normal attitude
23c Empirical technology and natural science
23d unique intuition
23c Phenomena and intentionality
24 the necessity for phenomenology
24a The situation of distance among technological know-how and life
24b The critique of the optimistic sciences
24c The constitution of the realm and 'objects' of science
24d Phenomenology and the guiding notion of science

Towards a primary ontology of science
27 Phenomenology and a basic ontology of science
28 technology and objectivation in geography
28a How does theoretical discovery arise?
28b the typical global and the theoretical attitude
29 the improvement of technology and the concept that of 'progress'
30 Human technology and objectification
31 Rigour and exactitude in science
32 thought and its achieve and carry over nature and world
33 technological know-how and the lived world

PART IV HUMAN technology, WORLDHOOD, AND SPATIALITY
Implications for the human sciences and a human technology of geography
34 Phenomenology
35 Phenomenology and the technology of geography
36 in the direction of a proper projective human science
37 Husserl and human science
38 in the direction of a proper and a priori 'mathesis of spiritand of humanity'
39 The existential analytic and the human sciences
40 The existential analytic and the 'natural belief of the world' (or lifeworld)

Towards an realizing of human spatiality
41 Geography, international and space
42 international and worldhood
43 Space
43a The technological view of space
43b The spatiality of the present-at-hand
44 the typical mode of being-in-the-world
45 The spatiality of the ready-to-hand: locations and regions
46 house and science
47 Man's spatiality
48 area and man's spatiality
49 position and area: implications for a nearby ontology of spatiality for a geographical human technology

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